Enrolling less homogeneous patient groups in clinical trials while maintaining safety may lead to a more accurate description of a drug’s safety and efficacy, FDA officials wrote in an article published April 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
